Academic training in a child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship: a curriculum based on leadership experience.
OBJECTIVE
The authors describe how one child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship program responded to emerging trends in clinical practice which increasingly demand that child and adolescent psychiatrists lead their colleagues through instruction and supervision.


METHODS
Data from surveys of recent graduates of child and adolescent training programs were reviewed and the trends were identified. The authors describe the Academic Chief Fellow rotation, which was designed for the fellows to enhance their academic skills by teaching, guiding, and supervising their junior colleagues.


RESULTS
The authors describe the implementation of the new rotation and discuss the fellows' response. They also detail the responses of the medical students and residents who rotated on the child and adolescent psychiatry service under the Academic Chief Fellow.


CONCLUSIONS
Greater experience in teaching and supervising others can be meaningfully integrated into existing child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship curricula. Other outcomes may include greater medical student and general psychiatry resident satisfaction with their child and adolescent psychiatry rotation and greater interest among medical students in child and adolescent psychiatry as a career.
Ivany
Christopher G
CG
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Tripler Army Medical Center, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. christopher.ivany@us.army.mil
Russell
Robert K
RK
Vanessa
Venezia A
VA
Saito
Albert Y
AY
D000296:Adolescent Psychiatry / Q000193:education*; D002665:Child Psychiatry / Q000193:education*; D003479:Curriculum; D005257:Fellowships and Scholarships; D006801:Humans; D007857:Leadership; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013663:Teaching / Q000379:methods*